Shannon Tarbet

Shannon Tarbet born 27 October 1991 is a British actress who has transitioned from an extensive career in theatre to feature film with main roles in Love Is Blind 2019 and Love Sarah 2020 and on television with recurring roles in Genius and in Rellik 2017 and as Amber Peel in Killing Eve 2019 Tarbet was born and lived her early years in Brighton East Sussex and attended Greenfields School in Forest Row Tarbet studied acting at the KBis Theatre School in Brighton From there Tarbet was working in telesales attempting to save enough money to apply for drama school when she successfully auditioned at the Royal Court Theatre igniting her acting career Tarbet made her professional stage debut in 2010 as Delilah Evans in the Anya Reiss play Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court Theatre for which she was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer in 2010 In 2011 she made a guest appearance in the BBCs Inspector George Gently In 2012 she appeared as Jane Clairmont in Helen Edmundsons play Mary Shelley The same year Tarbet played a voice role in Nell Leyshons radio drama Jesss Story for Children in need aired on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012 concerning students with mental health issues In 2013 Tarbet appeared in the short film Woodland and won the best actor award at the Underwire Film Festival In 2015 Tarbet was nominated for an Offie award for best female for her performance the play The Edge of our Bodies at the Gate Theatre London In 2017 Tarbet starred alongside Geoffrey Rush in the Ron Howard directed Genius The same year Tarbet played sixteen yearold Hannah Markham in the BBC drama TV series Rellik In 2019 Tarbet starred alongside Matthew Broderick in the dark comedydrama film Love is Blind In 2020 Tarbet played the leading role of Clarissa in Love Sarah directed by Eliza Schroeder In 2022 Tarbet starred in an interactive film the first of its kind in Europe The Gallery